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European Numbers Information Gathering and Monitoring
Association
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Station News and Latest Listening
A» I TIM ES ARE U-T.C ,
FNRt I SH L ANGUAGE ST AT I ONG _
j iNnni NSHTRr poacher
to. GO in 14.45
15.00 to 17,45
tB. 00 to 77.45
on 14487 15687 16084
on 11545 12603 13375
on any thr&vt/ four f
6485 6759 7337 7251 10426
fol 1 o«
11545
»y
4730
We have recently
i r a n s in 1 1 1 e r s j i v
m e s s aye. T ! > e * ; c -» pJ
f r e q t i e n r y r <• irr : e
j c ) Ot". o 1. 1 <i.i «d an d A 1 1
noted t 4730
j ny 4 frequenc
of 4730 kHz
trsffir from the
u? i r i , Cypr us-
kHz i-“
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the
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Thanks to Michiel for the information on IP whir:h will appear
in issue 8.
CHERRY PTCKFR
No firm reports of this station this i ssiii
THREE FIGURE ENGLISH
T h i s s t a 1 1 . on c: on tin* ies to t r ansm i t
erratic, goes quiet around Christmas
most days,
t i me -
hu t is still
Host days at 08.20
between 7265 & 9277 (likes 7780.5)
cal 1 ing 774
Also noted
17.00 on 14760 kHz Wednesday railing 487
bu t n a t he a r d s i nc e -
READY READY
At present on
its winter
schedule, repeats all
trans
m i s
at 20 minute i
ntervals e-
g, h+OO
WZO Ivl'IO
hr 30
h i 50 h+*J 0
Saturday WK1
22-00
7 01
WK2
20 . OO
7
WKi
22.20
3410 Ol
WK2
20.20
?
WK3
22.40
4740 Ol
WK2
20.40
3910
04
WK2
21.30
4740
04
WK2
21.50
4 460
04
WK2
22.10
4270
04
Sunday No Transmissions received
(Hello to Derek 7). (P-Q. 472/5396/0042/-)
2
Monday
WK2/4
20 , 00
4740
04
Wfc2/3
21 . 30
4740
32
WK2/4
20.20
3410
04
WK2/3
21 . 50
4460
32
WK2/4
20.40
3910
04
WK2/3
22.10
7
Tuesday
WK1/2/
19.00
4740
06
Sr 3
19.20
3910
06
19.40
3410
06
Wednesd
WK1
19.00
4740
84
WK1/2
23.00
5235
13
19.20
3910
84
& 4
23.20
4740
13
19.40
3410
84
23.40
4460
13
Wednesd
Unknown 03 , 40
4740
68
NANCY
ADAM SUSAN
Dai 1 y
transmissions
continue
although are
somewhat erratic
14.00
14000
Cal 1 ing
FYS or FYP
(14000 also used
16.30
6715
Ca 1 1 ing
NAS
by Mossad ) .
17.30
5835
Cal 1 ing
MSA
20.00
5530
Cal 1 ing
NAS
21.00
4130
Cal 1 ing
MSA
Reception of this station is still poor in England, best
reception is on the 14,00 transmission, I was looking through
some old information and noted that in 1708 Libyan Jamahiriyah
Broadcasting had used 18000 kHz SSB for early morning
transmissions , this frequency was also used around this time
by NAS ? as reported by L angley Pierce in his book ‘'in tercept ing
Number Stations” strange coincidence ?
N N N 1
Again operating on
Win ter
frequencies to the following
schedule
Monday
21.00
4644
Wednesday
04.00
5072
4-024-
Wednesday
21.00
4644
Thursday
04.00 '
5821
Thursday
20.00
4024
Friday
04.00
5027
Friday
21.00
4644
We are still looking
for the early Monday transmission.
COUNTING STATION
Still very active although the reception of some transmissions
seems rather poor at present.
3
All English unless stated.
Mon
18.00
8143//6970
Sat
04.00
6840//???? 1
Mon
20.00
9219/ / 6782 G
Sat
12.00
11470// 16198
Mon
21.00
57 16//6797
Sat
13.00
10526//7547
Tue
17.00
8085//6780
Sun
12.00
16086//?'??'?
Tue
23.00
9120//????
Sun
12.00
10529//7547
Wed
17.00
8085/ /6780
Sun
14.00
10723//????
Wed
17.00
6970
Sun
14.00
12221//????
Wed
18.00
10375//???
Sun
18.00
9070//7907
Wed
18.00
8143//6970
Sun
1B.OO
6970/ / 10374
Wed
20.00
5153//????
Sun
20.00
5153//7907
Wed
21.00
6970//????
Sun
23.00
11450//????
Thu
18.00
7908/ /6970
Thu
20.00
5153//7907
Thu
21.00
57 16// 6797
Fri
03.00
7695//???? 0
Fri
18.00
8312//????
Fri
18.00
18726//???
Fri
21.00
6970//????
All reported in October November & December.
COUNTING STATION CONTROL TRANSMISSIONS All start at h+30
English
Daily
00.30
5205
7540
11441
01.30
9918
7763
06.30
5205
9224
07.30
13581
16451
11.30
10940
13.30
13423
16434
13.30
8559
11441
Not Same
17 . 30*
5205
8559
12285
♦ We have
noted
5205
only in recent weeks
Spanish —
Dai ly
00.30
5264
6792
02.30
6840
9958
10.30
7225
10324
18.30
11491
16310
We would
appreciate confirmation
that the
operat ing
, as some changes
seem to
be taking
frequencies used
for control
transmissions .
above are all
place with the
4 -
all
the?
GERMAN LANGUAGE STATIONS
GERMAN TWO- LETTER STATIONS
Since we last took a detailed look at these, much has changed
and we hope this update will be of interest. Many of the old
short range transmissions such as Echo Lima and Echo Golf seem
to have ended but new call-signs have come along to replace
them. Further ENGLISH language call signs have also appeared
MD BN DA VI are all active and CN is now using WL ' s old Id's.
The station uses a set list of frequencies but you need to
tune through them to find the broadcast, the time and day of
transmission is regular but the frequency use is variable.
TIME
MON
TUE
WED
THU
FRI
SAT
SUN
00.00
CD
CD
CD
01.30
GK/KW
GK
GK
02.00
CN
02.30
CN
03.00
SB/CD
03.30
CN
04.00
WL
05.00
KW
KW
KW
KW
KW
KW
KW
05.30
BN
07 „ 00
OA
09.00
KW
KW
KW
KW
KW
KW/MD
KW/WL
09.30
DA
DA/KW
10.00
DA
1 1 . OO
DA
13.00
VI
13.30
MD
VI
VI
14.00
KW
KW
KW
KW
KW
KW/AU
KW
15.00
0A
15.30
VI
16.00
0A/H
0A/HK
HK
HK
17.30
0A
18.00
RD
RD
19.00
OK
WL/RD
□A/WL
GK/RD
VO
19.30
RD
VO
20.00
RD
RD
RD/VO
GK
VO/RD
GK
20.30
GK
21.00
GK/V0
GK/VO
VO/GK
JW
JW/RD
22.00
RD/SB
GK/VO
OA/GK
RD/GK
22.30
GK
23.30
HK/SB
HK/SB
HK/SB
HK
Frequencies : 2707 3228 3262 4543 4594 4821 4888 5015 5182
5284 5732 5770 6765 6853 7404 7532 7740 7752 7855 8063
0173 9040 9325 9450 10460 10500 10740 10177 11108 11545
11617 12092 12210 12314 13572 13775 13890 14622 14945 15610
16055 16220 16414 17430 18575 19295 19755 20240 20350 20675
22885
5
—
■
. -
■
' rwf lil fc ; W
3 NOTE ODDITY
Continues to change frequency each month* the station seems to
keep Central European Time since it moves to +1 hour for 7 to
3 weeks between September & October, Transmissions at 04,05
Friday and 19,40 Sunday seem to have ended, Saturday morning
04.10 has not been heard recently* but is probably still
ac tive -
SUN SUN
SUN
SUN
SAT
FRI
FRI
05.10 13,10
20.10
22.10
21 . 10
17.00
20.40
August
5617
6642
5178
September 4063
5487
5017
4410
October
3471
4827
5329
November 8853
3352
41.39
December
3268
3815
3940
5575
January
3241
4126
Sunday 22.10 transmission
- we
predict
February
4357,
March
4562, April 4753, May 5637 & June 6547.
SWEDISH RHAPSODY
For the first time a third scheduled count variant type has
appeared, sending a different message (single) to that of the
D & M messages. This can be heard on the first Tuesday of the
month at 21.00 on 5340 in LSB , not the., us«c*\ d-S-b-
The following is a list of schedule changes ONLY and by no
means a complete schedule. For remainder see ENIGMA 6„
DAY
TIME
FREQUENCY
1
2
3 4 5
TUE
20 . 00
4195
MCW
TUE
21.00
5340
#
TUE
21 .00
3825
MCW
#
TUE
21.00
5340
MCW
SAT
22.00/30
3825
#
SAT
23.00
5340
#
SUN
01.00
5748
#
SUN
11.00
8188
n
SUN
22.00
5340
u
Message groupi
ngs D,
C, H, I,
G, M, N, L,
Q> R (
?), P still continue.
EXlt
all the
above transmissions
may
refer to new message
groupings not yet confirmed.
6
GERMAN LADY '00000' ENDING
difficult to find, does seem to have regular time slots, but
uses random frequencies- Groups are paired ends 00000 .
Try Monday at 20.00, Tuesday at 21.00, Saturday 21.30. Recent
Id's include 122 and 319.
NUI NO I CHEN
Messages are sent in single groups, often uses a 4F decode
key. Repeats all messages on three frequencies.
Tuesday 06.30 7379 8178 9280 calling 27B
Thursday 06.30 7379 8178 9280 calling 278
The above weekly schedule ended on 30 . 11.94 and will most
likely resume on ^.3.95 as it did in 1994, 278 appears to have
3 months off each year.
Thursday 21.30 8035 ? 6775 calling 7
Friday 05.00 5066 calling 704
Friday 19.15 10227 7 ? calling 7
Saturday 09.00 12227 11127 9427 calling 214
Saturday 06.15 5.4 region 5066 calling 841
Saturday 21.30 5155 7 7 calling 378
Repeat frequencies given only where known.
EAST EUROPEAN AND RUSSIAN STATIONS
'BULGARIAN BETTY'
We recently received some information concer-i-g this station
and believe it to be a Czech operation.
Daily Voice 'Control' Transmission 13.55-14.02 on r0z2//4485
See our feature Simon Mason Writes. ....
STATION YT YT YT
This station reappeared on Monday October .
Mon 18.10 in MCW calling BTV y usually 2 usages 4424
Mon 19.00 in Voice, 3 or 4 messages 4424
Wed 18.10 in MCW calling 8TV y usually 2 messages 4424
Wed 19.00 in Voice^ 3 or 4 messages 4424
Possibly morning transmissions also
DRUMS & TRUMPETS
This station was last heard in Septe^be- . *as operating on 9th
day of each month at 19.30 on 4740, please listen and report
any logs of this station.
1
BRAVE! VOICE
5 , bu t
rent
iecode
(nogt
} have
ation
n 9th
eport
This rough sounding Czech Male has not been
his very distinctive' use of random t
find mg him very hit or miss .... please repor
heard recen
ransmi.ss.lons
t if heard.
tl
y bu t
make
THE STR I CH Sends a 3F ID
widespread In voice and morse.
followed mainly
by /CO
is
If, dany 553 transmission at 13.00 sent a 78 group message in
mesiLe eP ? ^ the 28th ° f the month sent B4 group
message - longest ever recorded. A new ID, 121, appeared in
iate September running a very active schedule, appearing
almost daily at 18.00, 17.30, 20.30. 121 was conipicuous for
its lack of zero messages formats. Every single recorded
transmission sent a message with group counts varying between
^vp & h«n Operating 3 times per evening this cannot possibly
have been intended for a single agent & was possibly divided
into messages for 3 recipients at appropriate times. This
ra ltion for Strich and ended around mid - October.
Voice transmissions still continue but nothing like as
frequently as morse. Berman 476 & 677 are still with us,
Slavic Chetta (still 755) has returned - it may never hav^
if* h 8n9lish ID ’ 231 > fir = t heard on June 16th at
* 3 ?^ haS be?e ° heard on December 16th at 20.30. Different day
of the week but same day of the month. Perhaps she will oblige
us on January 16th. J
We will start with regular voice messages,
Mon
21.00
4465 3823
Chetta
755
(poss 1st
Tue
04.00
5050
German
697
Tue
21.00
3820
German
752
Wed
06.00
7580
German
496
Wed
23.00
3450
German
697
Thu
04.30
6905
Eng 1 ish
231)
W«.eJc^
Fri
20.30
3060
Eng 1 ish
231 J
mon
month )
Not
all above
are weekly
? check
each week.
3 egiilar morse
transmissions
Dai 1
y 07.30
5150
552
13.00
8100
553
22.05
4465
287
^nrgg
< Snr i
07.00
5550
017
Thu
06 . 30
5320 042
’Mar
0*7.30
5610
Oil
Fri
18.00
5150 121
Tije
07.00
5860
552
Sat
23.00
5050 621
04 .30
5150
214
05.30
12. OC
5150
9270
284
214
Mew
3°&° , 5090
_ ^st a sa*ple-many more exist.
3
RUSSIAN WOMAN
OOO 1 ENDING
Tue 17.45 5740
Thur 17.45 5740
Calling 342
Calling 342
Also heard irregularly
Mon 19.45 5292
Thu 19.45 5292
Cal ling 491
This station also has the 'Counting' habit, we have noted it
on several occasions around 20.20 on 4498 Counting 123456789 1
then off air with no message.
RUSSIAN COUNTING MEN
This brings us onto two variants of the Russian Counting Men
A) Is a loop tape - was 4562 last heard on 3878-long
transmissions
B) Is a live announcer who counts and says phrase, he appears
at random and was last noted on 4022 at 18.30, 2 minutes long
transmissions .
RUSSIAN MEN in RUSSIAN & ENGLISH
Transmissions continue on a wide spread of frequencies and
activity levels are still very high, "F6 1 1 ow ing our major
feature on these stations new information arrived.
One reader wrote....” I read a translation of the German BFV
annual report and it said that KGB/GRU communications
originated from Zossen near Berlin. I think that the report
was dated 1993 / as Zossen was Russian Army HQ for the GDR;
transmissions may well now originate from elsewhere".
In the next issue we will look at who the Russian Man
transmissions are aimed at ’
Due to the random nature of these stations we have not
included logs, but we would appreciate a note of any
transmissions, - particularly the 3F agent call, we are
collating a list of these. Please note if English, Russian,
German or morse which ever format was used (see issue 6 for
detai Is).
OLX OLX OLX
No sooner did we print a schedule in issue 6 than it changed \
Daily 23 Hours per day, to the following. Note 9321 & 5775 are
new and not listed on QSL card, 3 frequencies have been
dropped .
DO . 00 *5
05.00
75280 / / 530 1 / /B 1 4 2
All now in SSB
06 . 00
09.00
4601//5775//9320
10.00
17.00
5301 //8142//1 1002
18.00
22.00
3280/ 5301//B.142
T ransmiss
ions are
50/50: Voice/CW, All
Id's remain t he
the same
t i mes .
9
SPANISH LANGUAG E S T ATIONS
Most
heard
in the
early hours- . .
the' final
Ti na 1 ' s t a t i on
(dai 7
y) .
Mon
07.00
5417
Thu
06-00
4078
Tup
05.00
4078
Fr i
04.00
4479
Wed
04.00
7681
Frl
08.00
7887
Sat
07.00
7887
d it.
Sun
07.00
5417
9-1
Sun
10.00
9157 (
weak )
Without wis
hing to confuse the issue too much
the Russian Man
set up also
operates
a Spani
sh Lady
and Spani
sh Man, these are
very
s fcrong
in Europe. The
sta tion
seems to
have a regular
long
jears
ng
time slot on a Friday evening at either 22.00 or 23.00 UTC «
Agents used are either 195 or 579 and the pronunciation
slaw and deliberate, just like the Fng 1 ish/Russ ian Man
uses standard Spanish Numbers:
is
bu t
Tri
Uno, Das, 'Quatra,
FAR EAST
Cinco, Sies, Siete, Ocho, Neuve, Cero.
and
sajor
i BFV
tions
?port
gdr;
Man
not
any
are
ian ,
6 for
e d 5
5 are
been
e at
Uie have had several reports of Far East Number Station
activity,
New Star Radio, Taiwan is the most popular and can be heard in
Europe with a fair signal. Try at various times, . . . reported
at 08,15, 15.30, 16.00, and 22.00 on 8300 kHz in Europe. The
station sends a musical interlude between messages.
A second station as also been noted on 5738/ /6278 sending
Numbers in a. Far East language at 20.00.
we are very keen to have reports on more 'Far East' numbers
activity.
•'V/ *Vr 'V *\t 'V A/ 'V 'Kr *\j ■ r 'u >*V 'V, 'Vr 'V 'V 'V 'Vr -"Vr "V 'V 'V-'V »V *Vr *\» »\- 'V 'Vj 'V '"'u 'V 'V 'Vf ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ' V ^ ' v ^
•_ATE NEWS
RUFFIAN MAN 'CONTROL TRANSMISSION -A second one of these has
recently been heard. It follows
transmission daily. It uses an
two 5F groups are related, both
: E . C 3 transmission . Daily 08.00
on immediatley after the 14890
identical format in which the
to each other and also to the
14890 b 08,20 11270.
■IDENTIFIED STATIONS - * TRC * heard 26.12.94 at 20.55 on 4650
sent in CW ' VW 70? de TRC' followed by 5F groups in English
-'s-r by a YL in USB . . .no further details.
' U K V ' heard 25 . 12.94 at 13.30 until
14.06 on S178 Male with German accent reading English numbers.
signal ID 296 for 5 minutes followed by 160 pairs of 5F
: :_;z. Corresponds exactly to Russian Man format which ends
= Calces, BUT after this was sent in morse : UKUflO times)
to
5 I A T I ON NAMING
We real!
sod some time ago
t h a t
of con si
S tens y I r> r r? pn r t i n g
No
u sod o i 1
her r a m e s we h a v e
made
from
n r e • ' i o • ? s p >.j h 1 i r a t
ions
sat i s f ac
ffir v f S v " * O h V i OP S
'
nrr?r i SP
naming is requ i red
-
German-speal I ng females, and
o ft ; en imncss ' 1 p to t d on t i f y
f H £= r*
tat -: e- -
~o^
ogs reps
>.r4
r
HPP
Until nr
5 cr n a nor
the qy=
hrpsl-: c, rfo
r - _f
hi=c;p f-sn. i ! r*
' Rr=>
- 0 r-o
ian
a r 0
YL
oi
sever a
' Russ i an
; t a t i on s - ' Bu 1 g a r i a n
proliferate and who
11 apply
Be tty' is actually
the' German Ru
form
i n h r? r i t e d
er f - P'P f c
n w h o r?
v a r ions
f)F ‘ are
to an y
Czech,
an Man '
We have already received a few complaints e these lines and]
feel they are fully justified, however, only two people
col 1 at
ing ENIGMA
in formati on
the ta=*
i rt v c- 1 v e s a n e n a r m o u s
amouh t
of sifting
through logs
recei vp: .
• rjf f er 5 of he I p
a 1 w a y s
welcome ’ ) ,
The reporting of Morse Stations car he e-en more ambiguous,
and ultimately, the accuracy of information given in ENIGMA
depends largely on that of the informatics ->.s receive.
First of all , we must be sure of what a
be able to positively identify it by c : -~
and schedules published in ENIGMA. If ^*e a
we may have found a new station. I x
information is required as possible, not
frequency but complete details of form
beginning to end. Even message content
determine repeats and nature of the code _s
listening to, and
ng it to formats
still unsure then
, then as much
date, time and
preferably from
an be useful to
In our next issue we hope 1 to
and reporting techniques and
w h i c h will, we hope , en able an
at a glance.
As far as naming is concerned,
that the simplest method is to
consecutive number. To indie
stations a single letter prefix
i ncl ude a'- a - riel e on 1 i s ten i n
also a dec a iled format char
unknown static- to be verifie
after much t nought, we believe
allocate each station its own;
ate between .nice and morse
has been adapted :
M for Morse, G for German, E for English, S for all Slavic
languages and V for all other languages e.g. C rench, Romanian,
Spanish, Chinese etc & X for n ther morse or .sice.
Occasional variant formats can be
-A , 8 , C , etc. Using this system
morse stations has been drawn up
numbers stations but also other
It is already in use by certain
it preferable to the old system an
indi rated
the Izx
— covering
suspect ~o
of our con
by a suffix letter
i ng check- list of
not only typical
rse transmissions,,
tri tutors who find
y- 4- . — v p-n 4~ » » <p*j *4* p ^
l\
a rt io
Desc r i p t. i on
Morse Su pp 1 emen t Mo
1 f o r rn
, havp
, r f fpH
No ;
Ml
%i2
Nin
Description (brief)
2 Tone/ends 3 short dashes
A) end of month format
B) as A but with message
C) 00000 first group
AR/ Morse NNN
Strich Equivalents
A) 111/333 variants
( zeroes )
to any
M4
LO LO , Ends AR SK/Swedish Rhapsody
1
“zecb ?
Mh
6 Fig u r‘ e / 2 D a y Won d e r
-
Man *
=s and
M£> t
OLX
A) original format no longer used
3
;eop 1 e
M7
Rapid Dashes ~ tone sequences
9
irmous
MB
( real located ) Abbreviated CUJ 5F
-
M9
Wideband F , M , (abbreviated)
-
MIC
Rapid Dashes- 8 u 1 gar ian Bette
10
Mil
3 Short Dashes (zeroes'
5
jli-OUS ,
Ml?
3 + 3 Short Dashes (zeroes)
6
ENIGMA
Ml 3
3 Long Dashes (all slow)
A) 3F 000 is not a null message
4
b , and
M14
5 Dashes (fast)
~7
If mats
M15*
DEA47
16
= then
Ml 6 ^
8 BY
1 7
, much 1
Ml 7
Ready Ready equi va 1 en t /ends VA or
SK 1 5
ne and 1
Ml 8
4625 kHz Pseudo Signal
24
y from
M19*
MPL
18
fill to
M 20
' V ' S ta t i on
M-
M 2 1
Pseudo Time Signal ^ 0^777
A) with interspersed groups
25
ten i n g
chart
M? 2 *
4XZ
19
r i tied
M? 3
Odd /Even station
ll
M2 4
Slow Dashes
13
M2 5#
KKN/KRH/KWS Series
no
el i eve
M2 6
'98' Station
26
ts own
morse £
M27*
BTV (YT Morse Version)
A) with YT's
27
M28*
HEP
21
c
^29*
VDE
on
s^-lan ,
MTr\^
MG
*131 %
FDC
10
14403 kHz - Numerous Callsigns
letter 1
M77*
P 8 K
st of
«*»■/
Counting Morse/11 12345
-
ypical
si 00 5 . I
SLHFB's In cluster* bands
p find*
ff*v
Irregular 'V' Beacons (never in cl
us ter bar
d to »
•^r .
- seudo-commerc i a 1 Beacons
** f s
S _ H F B , 3 out of cluster bands (soli
t aries)
FSK (none operating at present)
these use call -signs , so are unambiguous, but
: o complete the list,
given is arbitrary.
i ssued
12 .
have bee
updates w i 1 1 be
Morse Numbers Station News
As there is such a vast range of stations and so little space,
we will only include significant changes rather than full
in forma tion -which can be repetitive- Most of these stations
deserve features of their own and these will appear as space
permits. From now on we will be using the ENIGMA reference
nos. as given on our checklist in this issue. We will continue
to name stations by their callsigns, where applicable.
Ml In addition to the Thur/Tues 18.00 arc 20.00 regulars, a
further regular has existed for some years at 07.00 on Sun, at
present these use 6280//5465 - all usi~c sane ID, at present
197, No irregulars have been heard over* past months. The
regular schedule between 3 never changing ID's : 025 - May to
August, 463 - Sept to Oct, 197 - Nov to Feh 463 (again)
March to April. Maybe this coincides with agent tours of duty.
This is not an agent number and messages a^e intended for
several recipients per week. Each ID s~d time slot uses
different frequency pairs, (Tug & Thur bei^g shared) making 18
in all.
Perhaps, more than any other 'typical' nos- station this one
exhibits the most interesting features, including a unique and
complex end of month format which provides us with much
speculative information. A feature on this fascinating station
is being prepared for ENIGMA 8.
0
z
£1
deviat ions
f rom
i.
ts reg
heard in
recent mo
nths .
We
have
its voice counter—
part
N
N N m
comments
2
Winter Schedule :
DAY
TIME
FREQUENCY
Mon
05 . 00
6995
Mon
18.00
4642
Mon
20 . 00
4642
Mon
21 .00
4573
Mon
22 . 00
4054
T ue
04 . 00
4024
Tue
05.00
4925
T ue
06 . 00
4024
Tue
IS. 00
6850
Tue
19.00
4024
&
4642
T ue
20.00
4024
Tue
21 . OQ
4024
Tue
22.00
4054
Wed
04 . 00
4035
Wed
05.00
4054
&
6850
Wed
17.00
4642
Wed
18.00
6770
Wed
20.00
5738
Wed
21 .00
5315
lar schedule. No irregular
heard that this station, an
y be located in France. Any
IDENTIFICATION
712
726
712
181
181
945
401
237
237
401 & 237
945
621
621
735
735 & 849
726
849
815
815
13
a in
pace? 5
' full
it ions
space
rence
t i’nue
- ’ a
I n , a t
[esen t
The
ay to
H) •-
d u t y ,
d for
: uses
ng 18
s one
e and
much
at ion
u 1 a r s
L and
. Any
Thur
Fri
Sat
Sa t
Sat
05 i 00
4054
723
20.00
5770 & 4642
827
21.00
4573 & 4054
827
Mi 1
05 . 00
6850
849
12.00
5738
181
18.00
9120
849
N‘3
See
version under 'Stnch'
very active.
M4 See
Tuesday ,
voice version under Swedish Rhapsody. A new entry
1st Week : 3925 at 21.00. Repeats not yet known.
~=~ Still running 23 hours daily. 50/50 Morse / Voice
- s appear at same times. For frequency changes see
«=c=»r-4-’)r->r-v 3
Same
voice
jll Very similar to Ml
quality of sending. This one
and is not hand keyed,
and the other MCW .
modulation is purer,
were confused with
Unfortunately, the Mil
morse supplement is in
Mi and Mil always use
2F . This difference i
ending of an M10/M11
be variants of Mi ' ir
to the bottom of this
previously thought, and
ne past 3 months.
the only difference being speed anc
faster and more professional
in f- He
Occasionally one Mi channel will use CW
This too seems to use both although
having a single tone sound. Early logs
^Mio. All have similar endings.
(3 short dashes) section in the first
accurate and should be deleted .
3F 'decode keys', M10 & M7 always use
s crucial in iden ti f ica t ion if only the
t ( ansmission is heard. Mil's may merely
regulars'. Given time we are sure to get
Thankfully Mil is not as frequent as
I have only logged four positive Mil's
Wed
Sun
Sun
Sun
Ml 2
frequ
them
a 1 on g
gen e
~ ~ =S -*
26th Oct 16.00 5456 '942-243-30'
26th Nov 08.00 5456 '287-931-23' All CW.
25th Dec 06.00 5.05 appr '972—372—34'
25>th Dec 08.00 5456 ' 799-382-24 ' 1st group 22222 !
As usual extremely active, using numerous random
jencies and Id's. It would serve little purpose to list
all here as they need to be viewed in a fuller context
with its voice counter-parts. Signal strength and
a. quality are uniformly good, mistakes non-existent.
' ’es come and go.
The same
r : e '■ = 1 1 : o s . Although
Fit. M 1 4 ' s
Beth very
applies to these, also presumably Russian
we treat these separately they may be the
incredibly fast keying warrants separate
active, but not as active as Mi 2.
professional , powerful signal and numerous
yet not quite as randomly selected. Active daily.
oc-ur following day on same frequency and at
ternatively, one hou- late- c~ same day.
14 -
Its Mi 3 A format where the call is a slow 3| c {y.i3) OOO sounds
identical to a slow Ml 2 zero message format. However; M13 never
sends zero message indicators, but continues (after calling
for 5 minutes) with a message as usual. The zeros could
possibly inform the rec ip lent that his/her previous message
has not been received as monitored by the following logs.
Mon
10th
□ ct
21 . GO
6884
' 387-000/125
25 '
T ue
11th
Oct
21 .00
6884
' 387— or o : " 5
25'
repeat
Mon
24th
□ ct
21 .00
6884
' 387-00 0 2 6
25 '
new msg
T ue
25th
Oct
21.00
6884
'387-OC: 126
—! «=; ■
repeat
The 3 figure 'message indicator' is a
allocated to each agent who would 1 ave
starting 101, second message 102 etc. '' r ':s
associated with a similarly numbered deccce
one time pad. i.e. on 24th Get was sent 387 s
The 000 format is rare.
New id's include : 125 261 245 353 415 417 4 2 7
New frequencies include : 5245 6573 6722 BIT
11216 12155
the last
two are re late. si
consecutive no.
a first message
probably also is
key' or page .in a
, 26th message.
517 629 757.
2 8162 9010 9983
y high for this
station ) .
DEA47 Became erratic and now seems to have disappeared. We
would be interested to know the date of last transmission.
QSY This is far from dead ! but does see* have became more
erratic , A new active frequency is 7668.
M17 Operates a rigid but very complex sc red
its voice counter-part "Ready Ready”. Its
discovered 'slot' being on 3rd Thursday of mon
7425, this repeats at 15,20 on 6930 and at 13.
I d begins 06 . . .
Other morse prefixes are : 50 53 56 57 58 60 65
An article on this group of stations is long
are preparing ore for ENIGMA 8 or 9,
^le along with
mo s t recentl y
th at 15.00 on
40 on 6675. 5F
71 .
overdue, and we
M18 The 'time signal' on 4625 is back with - it was not.
greatly missed !
MFL Mo change. Daily on 10180 at 13.20.
M2P Not heard at all ever the past 3 months. (Not unusual ,
It comes and goes in a similar way to certain Strict' id's).
M21 Still very much around. Often cn 2 frequencies
simultaneously but nut in parallel. Newest frequencies : 3« 3'5,
2316,3247, 5206.5, 4042^8084. True messages of 14 F groups are
net infrequent.
4X Z Very active on many frequencies and messages are
f requen t .
M2 3 Has an annoying habit of re-scheduling to wildly
different times and frequencies. As a result once we find a
regular slot it disappears for a while until found again.
IS
t-ind s
pver
ling
oul cl
sa ge
I HQ.
sage
i s
in a
9983
this
i. We
on .
mere
with
>ntly
K3 on
. 5 F
we
not.
.185
are
Idly
n d a
present can he found daily on 9285 at .16,30, Mot only is
the 1/2 hour slot a departure from the usual but now the
lengthy call has been cut down to 5 minutes, and keying is
automatic . 197 has been replaced by 951 as a popular null
indicator (odd number). About 107 . of transmissions contain
'-essages. Another time slot in the day is likely but has not
dee''- found. At least it is unadventurous frequency wise and
tends to return to its old haunts.
♦h-.S78 & KRH50 Both c on t i n ucu s 1 '
inf requeri t. .
Europe
messages
The '98' station
oe meet welcome -if you
dpta i led i n ter c e o t s ,
w i t h u s . A n y r e p o r t s w o u 1 »:
'is s t a t i o n w e w o u 1 d a p p r e c i a t s
rhi
n*r
TV call
s t a f .i o n h as rece n 1 1 y scrap p e d i t: s Y T c. a 1 1 p r s c e d i n g
3 t h e wise it c on tin u e s t. o send 2 or mo r e
■ess ages every Mon 3 Wee at 18.10 on 4424, morning
: -ansm i s s i on s a re 1 i k e ] v tit ic t vet f oun d .
' 9 W de ME 9 J
" requeue iss
m parallel
heard to ser
; i n /rn?
325,
- e r -a n y y e a r s i 1
Ln teres ti no .
as neve?
• DE Tuesdays 64 51 at 0*? . O 5 . Each w e e K s s? n d s 1 1 1 e s a rn e rn e s s a g e=?
commencing at 09.10 with * 45 30 1 1005' and into 30 5E groups,
certainly not broadcast fro"* Canada [
A dedicated EM!G**A .^oadfer
which operates on 14403 sal ^ y
_ ses a bewildering number - x air
signs sending lone 5 ' ettp^
comp 1 e v it y .
3 1 d us a bou t t h i s s t a t f on
thp mornings. Thp station
: random 4 char a r ter call
messages
n i
i U 4 -
m a p
q^tefu 1
in Hull for his monumental
contribution which we ar= et: Y analyzing and will cover in
greater detail in the ~e~c issue- Please have a listen out. for
this station and let us have your opinions.
2- Morse station sectio- is continuing to grow and we would
appreciate any information^ logs and comments about any of the
c tut ion s detailed.
f\, r\j rij.
NEUfS, . .
3 V T -no t ran sm i s i on on Monday January 2nd 1995 (on
holiday * ! ) returned as usual on Wednesday.
1 Mo distinctive 'end o f ^a-t u :' transmission at either 18.00
cr 20.00 on last Thu r day in December ( first time this has
seen noted). Merely 2 standard 40 group messages. Also on
Thursday 5th January ~ no 18.00 transmission, but 42 group
-essage was sent at 20.00.
>*7 ie-ft °f“ Activity r«./vxcvirk5 <*>
~ i »\ ^T>f nr>.C\ki \r\ Ct/MA S .
I h
Things That Go Buzz In The Night
Welcome along to another BUZZ Page* aost of our unsolved old
favourites are still buzzing, piping and crackling
along. . , . . information on any of their is always very keenly
received. We are going to give over -cat of the page to
mystery which most reader will have heard but perhaps ignore
1 'FADERS' have been around years but what are they ? ........ .
Regulars first. . . .
THE BUZZER still very active 4625, made a brief appearance //
on 5211 kHz between 12.00 & 18.00 on Sunday 18th September.
THE PIP can be heard regularly evening a~d late 3757-variable
to 3752, also occasionally very strong ' ' 5-50.
THE ECHO seems to move between 3 frequencies, 4080 4119 &
4382,
THE CRACKLE 5494 P,- 5505, very active. Still around e 1 sewhere. also
THE BACKWARD **US I C STATION still arc und , last heard on 5685
kHz on December 15th - goes on for hoc ^s with totally un-
intelligible sounds. . . .described recently in the US
'Monitoring Times' as sounds resembling moaning whales', they
are reported to emanate from US Naval I ns ta 1 1 a t i ons at
Jacksonville, Florida and Virginia Beach, . i-ginia although
this is not likley, considering signal strength in Europe,
FADERS,... so called because when you tune to them they appear
to Fade... away, then come back strong agai~, tney are on wide
range of frequencies, the signal {N „ B . F . M «) consists of a rough
groan of constant pitchy like a motorbike engine The reason
that they fade is due to the one minute cycle they use, each
burst is 7.5 second in length, whether a face takes place or
not then the sound breaks every 7,5 seccrcs - at this point
the signal does one of three things....
a) Carries on at full power
b) Fades to a lower power
c) Stops completely
The
eye !e
of one min
u te
seems
to foil ow a
pattern but can also
be r
andom
in na
ture,
for
example ,
7.5
15
—i <z.
30
37.
5 45
52. 5
00
Seconds
LOW
LOW
HIGH
HIGH
LOW
LOW
HIGH
H I GH
LOW
OFF
HIGH
HIGH
OFF
LOW
HIGH
H 1 3H
Faders ope
rate
on a
w I d e
s pread
of f r
equene
ies, many in use
over any short period. Try these popular frequencies.
3820 4048 4475 4480 4495 4563 4845 4985 5105 5315- 5785 5790
5847 6797 6825 6940 6990 8055 9245 10480 11100 to name just
seme of the most popular ! Heard day and night and very
active. Give them a try, you will soon be hook ed .... comments
always we 1 c ome .... fader s do operate on a large number of
random frequencies also. Logs show 4 in 3 mHz, 15 in 4 mHz 15
in 5 mHz 8 in 6 mHz ......
n
a oj
d old
k ling
een 1 y
to a
norprj
//
i a b 1 e
119 &
ci) so .
5685
y un-
US
they
s at
houg h
ppear
w ide
roug h
Eason
eac h
c e o r
point
a 1 so
; just
very
men ts
r of
Hz 15
Letters to E.N.I.G.M.A.
First off - Happy New Year - to all our readers World-Wide and
sincere thanks to everyone who as taken time to write in.
Again we regret that we are not able to answer all your
letters personally, but please keep writing. We read and
collate everything we receive.
Just to start off with a x ew thank-you' notes to Tom in
Chelmsford , Ian in Perthshire and many other readers who
commented on issue 6. Also thanks to Ray in Nottingham and Leo
in Sunderland for all the information we received about
'direction finding'.
Our first letter comes from Abe la in Espoo, Finland and he
asks several questions including. . -do Number Stations exist on
LW, MW and VHF ? Well, --e have mad some reports of a Numbers
Station which could be heard operating on the FM broadcast
band which was mcnitc^ec in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The
transmission was jammed at the time, FM signals do travel
quite a distance but are really only of use for broadcasting
into a local a r ea, perhais across the border into another
country. We have never ~ea*"d of any LW transmissions but a.
regular contributor to ENIGMA did tell us " ....that
transmissions sent fretr v 3 gdebu r *g in the former East Germany
for soldiers also c arris: -essages for non-existent people in
West Germany. CW messages *ere also broadcast on MW and the
DDR often used MW hr sp cc-^ications" .
Ahola also asks have . ever de -coded any of the messages"?
Vie 1 1, the answer to t^is is a simple NO - and I guess it is
also not a good idea to Simply, the messages are so secure
you could spend almost forever trying ' This is not to say
that the professions is = "e ~ o o trying, but even with the most
powerful computers it is a~ enormous task. In the book
" Spyca t c her " , Peter ..-~io - t explains in detail how Number
Station codes wo r = , _ s -vi'-es. . . ."For years both GCHQ and N5A
and MI 5 employed oss~s o~ researchers scouring the world
searching for col lateral : b_t despite the effort less than
i percent of the G 7 0 . C T 7 - sssages we held were ever b r o k e n
into, and many o x these .%e-e broken only to the extent of a
few words" .
Now a letter from c_v' good friend Ary in the appropriately
called Spykenisse, ’he Netherlands. Ary sent us some
information about three Esther odd stations ... he says in 1984
there were 3 stations ^s i ~ g zal Isigns DFD25, DFD78 and DFDu9
who identified themsel.es as 'Deutsche Sportverlag mit
Sportnachrichten" . The stai:: n s operated in the 4 mHz area and
broadcast horse racing results ! Can any ENIGMA reader confirm
anything about these call sigms 7 Ary, and also Brian m
Crawley, West Sussex have asked for an update about Radio Ram
Chet irye .
18
Ivan in Pskov, Russia tells ENIGMA that the station we called
Radio Ram Chetirye is Radio REM-4 which belongs to the Moscow
Me ter o 1 og ica.l Institute in Russia. The station sends special
aviation weather information and details on atmospheric fronts
and storm warnings. We are still suspicious I
Ivan also says that the station transmits each day, in winter
at 04.30 10.30 12.50 and 22.30 UTC. We would be interested to
know if anyone could perhaps QSL this station or can provide
further information.
Now a r- eque -t for help from a reader in Greece who would like
to correspond with other listeners; he writes that the subject
is so vast 41 1 don't know how to start" - if you would like to
help please write to :
KR0MMIDAKIS MICHEL, Skines Kydonias, Xania Kriti, Greece,
Andreas in Lands berg, Germany sends us another letter packed
with information " In spring this year I read a detective'
story by the Bulgarian writer Mikhael Bulgakov about a
Bulgarian agent in Denmark". In the book Andreas tells us that
the agent communicated with HO via a Numbers Station
*****««•*••• « On a very similar subject Mike in Kent wrote to
us about DL X . . . he tells us that while watching a television
programme via satellite (the film was German) the hero of this
'spy thriller' was tuning his Grundig 'Yacht Boy' to the
familiar WV de 0LX call -sign. He then copied down a 25 group
message onto his one-time pad,...
A case of fact meets fiction or is it the other way around ?
A CHTUNG, . _ A C H T U N G ‘- On May 3, a giant satellite was launched with
little press coverage from Cape Canaveral. The $1.5 billion
satellite is a joint project between NS A and the National
Reconnaissance Office. The unit known as 'Mentor' has an
antenna larger than a football field to carry out "hyper-
spectral analysis , or in simple terms - a wide swathe of the
electro-magnetic spectrum.
'Clipper' &' Digital Signature! ' opponents may be interested in
this information. Mentor surprised space analysts by moving
into a geo -stationary orbit (this allows Men tor to sit above
its target). Additional launches are planned for late 1994,
Mentor is reported to be over the Ural Mountains in Russia,
while the second unit will sit over Western Europe.
ENIGMA readers may be interested in the planned receiving
sites for these units, the main one is likely to be Buckley
Field, Aurora Colorado, an NSA/Reconnaissance down link, but
in Britain the NSft station at Menwith Hill, North Yorkshire
continues to grow with 3 more radomes under commission. The
NR0 operate a new receiving site at Mol eswor th, Nr. Huntingdon.
(The ex-Cruise missile site).
^Clipper' is the name of the chip US Government intend to
install as the standard encryption system for commercial and
private (mobile phones). The odd thing is that they have the
ability to decrypt the information f
ENDE ENDE ! (Marcel France via Coring Wirbei ) .
19
cal led I
Moscow!
pec x a 1 1
fronts
win t e r I
>d to
ircvide
d like!
ubj ec 1 1
ike tc
packed
ec t i vel
ou t a I
is that
on -I
bote to
Ivision |
pf t his j
to the
P group
with
i i 1 1 ion
1 1 ion a. 1 I
an
as
K y per
f
he
ted ini
moving
, above
1994,
ss ia ,
p e l v jl n g
jc k 1 ey
fcr , but
Ikshire
In. The
|d on .
bnd
to
si
and
Ive
the
the Cuban Secret
barrel writing from France sent us a clipping from the
- a - 5Z fne " L ' Evenemen t Du Jeudi” dated January 6 th 1994, the
story concerns a group of spies recruited in Cuba by the CIA
afso were at the same time working for
: = . ice.
The feature covered the Mario Casagrandi case
and explains - " Every week, he
the CIA (the voice of
rubbers) on a normal commercial Sony
from the CIA a transmitter (RS804)
(see ENIGMA 4)
received sec ret messages from
Cynthia transmitting groups of 4
Sony shortwave receiver. The
io received
: ss i gned into a chess game,
pnioded messages via satellite
T -0 transmission speed was
characters, he could transmit
transmitter could be hidden in
a 1 <
this allowed him to transmit,
to the Fleet Satcom Station.
around 20 second for 1800
x rcm home or out-doors and the
a sports bag " .
Be -era .
po 1 y tone
i 1 readers have asked about " T one Stations” c
transmissions. These are powerful AM signals sending a
changing series of notes, each tone correspond ing to a figure.
,-;e would be interested in receiving any reports or further
information on this subject.
J ans
om
Leg
in
‘‘'cm the same
phonetic stations VHF and 7LB2
'his is caused when two powerful
the same location and are not
this recently with a ’St- ich"
language call ”752/00” was sent
transmission from
bleeding through.
Germany wrote about the mixing of two signals
transmitter site and mentioned hearing the
mixed together on 5820 kHz.
transmitters are operated from
correctly shielded. We noticed
transmission wh e n t h e G e r m a n
in voice on
4465
endive
287/00
5052 kHz the CW
could be heard
answers. . . -first a reader
and where is It located. .
New onto a few quick question = anc
asks about our mention o^ Creslow’
-~ e site is not on most naps and is situated off the A413 nea»
t'e village of Whitchurch i~ Buckinghamshire.
r;tGMA is also interested in the site known as RAF Ash, this
is situated off the A2- T between Canterbury and Sandwich in
-fy>e site used to fee a -adar station but now seems to be
d with a wide varies-. of equipment more on this in
_*- next issue.
-hTUNG ACHTUNS! " I read ^sce'tly that Erwin van Haarlem has
sen ^ent home to Czec hos 1 o - s - i a due to the good relations now
listing between the two countries" FNDE — EN DE _^ Thanks D .
-anks again for all your letters - please keep that
-formation coming in. T u .a-- V' ou also to those reader^ w >Q
end us anonymous i n forma t ic , which is most appreciated.
y op t
equippe
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zo
Simon. Mason Writes .........
*
This piece was going to be called 'A Week with DEA47 ' in which
1 had intended to monitor the morse station DEA47 for a full
week. However, things didn't quite go as planned since the
station no longer seems to be keeping to its 'office hours',
as I prepared the daunting task of listening to it for sever
days 1 .
The majority of the time, the station just repeats its marker
of VW de DEA47, but now and again short messages of the type
653T 9995 653T 9995 CB CB CB NW 6982 II 6932 AR DEA47 are
sent. There was insufficient monitoring dene to establish an>
pattern if any existed. Another static- - BE v (see morse insert
with this issue) is much more active, but for this issue I
decided to take a look at the so called 'Bulgarian Betty 1 !
voice control transmission which appears each j ay.
The same ygice was active throughout t e 1990's an a bus>
hourly and ha 1 f --hour 1 y schedule which ended roughly arounc
1990. Its morse counterpart is HID, which uses a simpler 3F IE
notation, hut Ml, Mil and M7 all have certain elements irj
common. It has another direct voice counterpart - a variant
of 'Gravel Voice' . A further 'Gravel Voice' -ariant ~ the
'Czech Man Control' operates an identical format. to the
present 'Bulgarian Betty Control' but only on ^are occasions -j
probably monthly.
The transmission appears each day at 13.55 me 14.02 UTC on the
frequencies of 4485 and 5027 kHz. The fi -e ~i~nte preamble at
present is 555 555 555 3.13 313 313 05 which is repeated until
14.00 LiCT, then 47 42 05 05 is sent f c ' lowed by 'Pozor 1
Pozor! ' and then the message itself - which is the only pari
that changes. The message ends ’’Pozor -zzm- 42 42 05 05
Y a nee Kanec { “ The word ' pozor* is C z ec K attention' 5 it
is not ' hothor ' or 'over' - these words don t exist in Czech,
Nor is the language Polish, as has been reported ! ' K'onec '
( pron . Konets) is Czech for 'end'. The message itself consists
of a 5F group repeated ten times. It -early always has a
central zero group, and the first figure is usually a 5,6 or
7 or 8 and the fourth figure usually a 2 or 7. There have beer
some exceptions to this as we will see ir. the list that
follows. Back in July 1993 when the station ..as first noted ir
this format, it used 5311. kHz at 14.00 UTC and its call up waE
555 555 555 990 998 998 02 , but around August 1993 it
changed to its present 313 call up.
By October 5th 1993 it was using 7882 with its present 555 31.3,
05/42 05 sequence. On November 1st i99~T it moved to 6974 anc
on January 1st. 1994 to 4485. In July it moved again to 5021
and shortly after 4485 reappeared in //.
(U the light <»f farther thvS -future haa to
Co reuar\tt«LA — M.C.*)
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60079
7.9
65034
13. 10
66025
12-8
58066
12.9
64029
14. 10
65034
13.8
69042
13.9
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15.10
64034
14.8
67029
15.9
65031
17, 10
69028
9.2
75024
16.9
65031
20 . 10
65034
10 . 2
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17.9
25 . 10
63034
4.3
82024
18.9
65034
26. 10
68024
17.3
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21.9
6303 1
31 , 10
78036
22 . 4
58051
22 . 9
63000
2,11
76030
28.4
71029
25.9
63031
4.11
78041
6.6
00061
26.9
55028
7.11
62028
29.6
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28.9
65031
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70025
6.7
66031
30.9
61027
11.11
56027
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53032
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61028
13.7
68066
8.10
64028
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20.8
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THE SIX TONES STATION (xi)
A further, almost certainly espionage -related station, which for some unacc-
: -“table reason, we have overlooked in these pages until now, is the myster-
six tone station”. Surprisingly we receive very few reports of it, yet it is
to be found quite often, particularly on the higher frequencies. Transmiss-
irr.s consist of a series of six tones sent over about 3 seconds, and repeated
continuously for 5“ 15 minutes. So far ve have logged 8 different sequences ,
cne being more favoured than the others. The signal is always strong and uses
A.X. These factors , along with their habit of using frequencies and times at
tan tom - appearing at 5 min intervals -ithin the hour - are shared in common with
cumbers transmissions believed to be KGB GRU controlled. Recently, this station
cat been very active, sometimes several times daily, on frequencies as low as
-t;I*:K z. Bursts of data have been retorted after the end of the ’melody’
ter lot. but these may be unconnected. The presence or absence of a part-
icular melody may in itself indicate tc the recipient a particular status or
res sage. Alternatively, the indivicualrctes may each represent numbers - as
. polytone. i.e. a repeated 6 figure number. No regular schedules have been
: :_n: .nor have any favoured frequencies . however, there is evidence of repeats
being sent on different frequencies within the hour.
22 -
The BND and Electronic Surveillance
Mike, Bath , UK
ABSTRACT
The text of this article has been translated from a recently published Ger-
man book provided by an anonymous ENIGMA source. Unfortunately, we have
no information concerning the book's title, author or publisher and are therefore
unable to provide the due acknowledgement. Locations of sites can be found at
the end of the article.
1. The Development of the BND
The German Intelligence Service, (Bundes N aehrichtendienst) or BND was formerly run as a unit
of the regular German Army. However, it soon became clear that this organisation was hindering
the efficient collection and dissemination of high-quality intelligence information, especially
where sources were electronic in origin. The main sections of the BND responsible for electronic
surveillance work were Sections 2 and 14. These sections dealt mainly with telephone intercep-
tion and had well over 2,000 operatives. In any case, by 19B4 a decision was made to find a better
home for all of its operations, especially those devoted to eavesdropping on radio traffic.
2. Moving On
The lack of any local buildings that were large enough to accommodate its staff and the massive
antenna systems required, forced the BND to look for a new site around the Bavarian town of Pul-
lach. The group formed to operate this new radio surveillance service was christened the BfF,
Bundessteile fuer Femmeldestatistik (Government Agency for radio communications statistics),
using over 400 operatives from the BND. The brief of the new section was to:
— collect and disseminate communications statistics
— perform field-strength measurement of transmissions
— provide for surveillance of all forms of long-distance communications
— locate and identify sources of interference to radio services
Its main facilities are located at its Measurement Site No. T in the town of Stockdorf, This site
also houses the Institute for Communications Technology 1 . This site gave rise to some novel inter-
ception and communications systems, for example those code-named "Harpune" (Harpoon) and
"Sehnelibahn" (Fastpath). These systems were co-developed with Rohde Sc Schwartz, Siemens
AG and AEG Telefunken with the computer hardware provided by Hewlett Packard. However,
the BND relied strictly upon in-house developed software for its computer systems.
The antenna systems located in Stockdorf are purely for receiving signals, outgoing traffic to
agents near and far being transmitted from the antennas at the Kreuzholzhausen site. For this ser-
vice, the BND used its sister-organisation, the Rundspruchdienst (RSD, or Broadcasting Service),
which would transmit coded messages in voice at designated times on predetermined frequencies
to BND agents operating in Europe. Another sister organisation, the Schnellinformationsdienst
(rapid information service) was used to send messages usually using Morse telegraphy, to BND
agents both inside and outside Europe. With over 70 operators, this section (24G), was" by far the
largest of the BND sections. It concentrated mainly on providing BND agents with information
2.3
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conceming East German MfS agents, their movements and orders.
: ^ er to prevent agents in the held from missing their transmissions at the predetermined times,
_e technicians at Stockdorf invented the Harpune system. Small modifications were made to
o-imarv radios of East European manufacture. The transmitters operated by Stockdorf would
***** seixi short data messages which were intercepted by the modified agent’s radio which would
automatically designate the new time and frequency of the agent’s next message. This systems
- as used by the BND’s East European agents and those stationed in the Near and Middle East.
Hurpune is supposed to have raised over 20Million DM for the BND, having been sold to its
NA^ 0 partners. It is interesting to note that the British agents involved in the Polish upheavals in
: - * : and 1987 were found to have been using Harpune equipped radios.
The Schnellbahn system was developed to prov ide agents without access to radio receivers, with
a means for secure message transfer. The system was connected to ordinary telephone lines and
ecu j send fast, encrypted messages to the agent Security was essential as the Stasi would
certainly be tapping the agent’s telephone lines. Schnellbahn met this need and also made
- v ery difficult for an eavesdropper to even detea that fact that a high-speed message has been
seat on die line.
5. The History of the BfF
Although Stockdorf was the main centre of BfF operations, a large antenna complex was also
const ! acted at Mai sing, and at its test and proving site in Tuetzing. From its facilities in central
Munich, the BfF undertook most of its East German telephone interception work. It is also likely
mar this work carried on for some considerable dme following the Re-unification of East and
West Germany.
ir.e BfF operated as a fledgling organisation in 1979 from a German Arafy^fxi Braunschweig,
-hen the main receiving systems were the US AN QRC-259 type. Sister stations operated from a
.^Tracks in Kassel and the Lower Saxony town of Woltersdorf — this part of the operation gener-
ally being acknowledged to be engaged in East German border surveillance. Other BND eaves-
dropping and surveillance sites were located in Bad Muenstereifel, Achem and the Krailling sites
codenamed Dacapo and Forsthaus). A telephone interception site was also located not far from
Frankfurt’s main railway station.
a.e mid- 1980 ’s saw a considerable period or new investment in the BND and the BfF. The
nranco-German listening tower at Berlin's Tegel airport, operated by the "Working Group for
Eipaiity Research" and the eavesdropping site in the Spandau part of Berlin were considerably
modernised and improved.
room us site close to the town of Monschau in the Eifel and also at Mainz Strasse in Bonn, the
Sir conducted eavesdropping on the many embassies located in and around the city of Bonn.
About 90 staff were employed at the Monschau-Hoefen site in monitoring this diplomatic com-
aker ;a f ons traffic ^ >0 ^ 1 by da y 2 nd by night, The BND was engaged mostly in intercepting the
EEC- related traffic being relayed between Bonn. London and Paris, in addition to monitoring
rdjer traffic for later sharing with the CLA on a case-by-case basis.
Tfce largest domestic site is operated by the BfF from Husum — officially main it s test and prov-
^ Codenamed "Kastagnette", this site was constructed by the BND between 1988 and
- rV - & a cost 20 Million DM. Following modernisation of this and other sites, there followed
me building of new stations. Most notably, those in:
— Bad Aibling (also the 2nd largest US eavesdropping site in Europe)
— Mietraching (codenamed Wildbore)
— and the site codenamed "SeelaixT
His work often involved collaboration with the US, in particular, to build sophisticated tro-
pBKaaer-feased systems used to monitor Warsaw Pact traffic. What Soviet Molniya-series satel-
mes transmitted to the East German groundstarion in Wuensdorf, was found to be relayed to
Z4
command posts in Czechosolvakia and Poland. The troposcatter sites were used to monitor this
traffic with ease. The facility at Bad Aibling is known to have provided first-hand intelligence to
ffie END when the 1991 anti-Gorbachov coup was about to take place, and followed the daily
developments and movements of heavy military equipment.
However, the southern German sites weren’t always directed at the East They also monitored
communications traffic to the Balkan states and those in the Middle East — especially Arab coun-
tries. Traffic carried in the underground cable systems that run through Germany, Austria,
Switzerland and Italy were also routinely monitored. With the "Seeland systems, the BND was
capable of monitoring Soviet and other, more general traffic, and all independent of any US
involvement. The BND was also very keen to take over the former US Reid Agency Station in
Gablingen, close to Augsburg. This was the largest eavesdropping site in Europe — a site
equipped for worldwide monitoring. However, the site would have required at least 1,000 staff —
a resource that the BND simply didn’t have. The outcome appears to have been a partnership
between the BND and it’s US peers to operate the station.
The BND also has strong connections to its counterparts in the border securin’ service, the BGS,
who operate radio surveillance sites in the towns of Heimeizheim, Luebeck. Leer and Rosenheim.
Many of these, and other BND sites are networked, and can be remotely controlled, for instance
from the PTT offices in Mainz. Most of the current spend has contributed to the construction of
sites for the monitoring of satellite communications, an area rapidly becoming more important
than that of the corresponding terrestrial traffic.
4. BND Site Locations
The following table lists the locations of the BND sites mentioned in the article ENIGMA would
welcome any further information and/or confirmation of these sites.
Achem
12km NE Strasburg
Bad Aibling
4km W Rosenheim
Bad Muenstereifel
30km SW Bonn (Belgian border)
Gablingen
2km N Augsburg
Heimertzheim
8km W 7 Bonn
Hoefen
20km SE Aachen (Belgian border)
Husum
3km W Schleswig
Krailling
4km SW Munich
Kreutzholzhausen
Unknown
Leer
SE Enschede (Dutch border)
Maising
Banks of Lake Stambeig, Bavaria
Mietraching
1km NW Bad Aibling
Pullach
5km S Munich
Rosenheim
6km S Munich
Stockdorf
Unknown
Tuetzing
Banks of Lake Stambeig, Bavaria
Wuensdorf
12km S Berlin
(s ■HVi.s
25
E.N.I.G.M.A. Bookshelf
SFYCATCHE c
BV PETER WRIGHT
ISBN 0-440-29504-1 , 1937 , 496 pp
Described as a must by Havana ‘"dc" , this controversial book
ms pub 1 i shed in Australia b ? D st=r bright former Assistant
I i — :tcr of Bri tains securit . service MI 5. The British
Government led by then Prime v .~:ster, Mrs Margaret Thatcher
— — — everything possible tc suppress publication of the book
3r b it Aas never available m Britain other than as an import.
-e a political view of intelligence ^acts, the main subject of
ms book seems to be providing me ^eader with the elements to
mme that the Director of 1 5 in the 1960's, Sir Roger
Hollis, was the mysterious fi^m man.
and Maclean, two British ^c^eign office diplomats were
Ec. let agents in the UfC during -%orld War II and the subsequent
period of the Cold Warn Bmgess was a relatively minor
m ^ i s i a 1 . Maclean, as a member of MI6 with access to
classified information, ~as s * z -e damaging agent. In 1951,
mm defected to the Sc • 1st J~ ion, having been warned by
another intelligence office- . Harold (Kim) Phil by, Phil by
: = x eiled to the Soviet m_m i 1963 when it was discovered he
the sc called thine ~a~. In 1979 Anthony Blunt was named
as the fourth man - a distm g^i shed art historian and Surveyor
c~ the Queen's Pictures - *=.~c ~ac confessed to being an agent
in 1964-
mturn for a promise of secrecy and non-prosecution.
Emulation still persists m: the identity of a fifth man
ms Soviet intelligence age~z_es speak of the magnificent
five). KGB files have ~ec£~cl r revealed Cairncross as the
f i f t n ' man «
- .a-ge part of these elements were gathered from radio
ic"'-' i c at ion intelligence ii“c-cteo by Peter Wright and the
scie-tific department he startec up from scratch in MIS.
the first time, here is s cook about coun ter- -in te 1 1 igence
Britten by a scientist, and is better (for ENIGMA readers)
z f a shortwave specialist. —is father, in charge of research
a~c development at Marconi. scm gave Peter an enthusiasm for
a m " tw a ve commun leaf! on c
is book you will I =a* — how MIS and GCHO could gain
is reception b> _msi£-le, another Soviet spy, of
= :re messages sent * m ’bsccw, just by monitoring the
- — tr — ■ — / i H /— * 1 - — ». ' I — X f— * • r— O f 4t r~ f*~\ ■* \ / r > *' k—v f ->i. -r* H s-->
— cc i wudt . - bu - ^ o — - jl cp w*vV f clctx vc* j uUA ui icy
decode t"e secret messages 3 x te* copying Lonsdales' s one
sds . ‘-Ca they could e a - sic- ip all the secret messages,
mm. -fed tele. fror tm Eg/ptian and French embassies
respective countries, and much
ndr«~ f
2 . Co
the i r
• fn fact, voii ' 1 I learn that the
emphasised du r i n g W c r I d W a r II fc y
between Erg lard and re.pis tonce mover
The Netherlands, by the famous Lucy
the no less famous Red Orchestra
countries and by the Richard Sorgo
ceased at the end of the war*
t? : H O r - “ <g f 3 f 1 Q ; ■) ' C*G P f i 0
t h e sec r e t c o m m u n i c a t i o n z
ents in FV ancs , Be I g ium am.
hetworl in Switzerland, b>
operated in many Wester?]
net w o •' V f n J a p a r. , n e v e r
In conclusion, one car say that the Numbers Stations or
shortwave were, and still are, one of the majo- 1 inks between
intelligence agencies and the under- -ever agents throughout
the World,
' S|f catcher ' is certainly a 'must' read oor those
in the Hiftory of Espionage, and particularly
shortwave readers of ENIGMA.
' Spycatcher' was only available in Britain as an importer
item f several versions including those by Heinemann Australia.
Dell Publishing USA and Viking Penguin are in circulation
Readers are advised to try second-hand Coo stores markets an <
fairs where copies of the paperback -5- be found selling a
around £1 . OO or £2 . 00.
in teres tei
for the
Thanks to Marcel for this book review.
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welcome your comments about the quality
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and
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which it might be improved . Your logs
are used
not
on 1 y
t
report new times and frequencies but
others previously reported are still in
a 1 so to c
operation -
t-
c
0
i rm
tha
We regret that we are unable to provide i ~ d ; - i cua I replies t
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and store information for use in present and future editions
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27
MORE ON ALPHA PHONETIC STATION - EZI
EZI is just one o £ '®J^J 1 f"® q “^J i ^. t ^Sei'SbleK n These
S&ESST J5 l^ced a? roughly^ MHz intervals and cover a large
part of the short wave spectrum.
The station operates a regul. W a
hour period, with a gap between ot obse rvation. March
£l££? ^5^\S^iU2 V S«.«S largely unchanged.
me station transmits any
regular times, on the hour o «• a i t-hounh there have been some
particular slot is : largely P™£ c £*> ad^Stonts with
minor changes which would PP M conditions, however, one or two
regard for the changing proportion conditions.
changes have Ration of the f?eq/time slot, presumably
STS Xf&SSW are^ 1 ? °may ■“ ° f thW
live been made to avoid interference problems.
bu t- 3 'sub j e c t 1 1 o* T* cont* nuoua “juXa?,’. 'to
^rimisftia use of th. fr.q/tlma slot, available.
fts has been observed befora. ..eh 0, th...
TnlyTe senl a'glfn in ttSt*.5S Slot on th. noxt. or over .uc.lv.
days .
Observation of the Table W j“g d i * p J£* r change 1 from^high 1 to low and bock
several times the different I nrqet a. nan
again, all within an hour °^ iil ly gg sorne Slots alwayn receive
for these transmissions, .Sim: none at all. fot day*
rrTefkS'of Ind °Sr S e llTer^ltZlVlre particularly st. Iking on
looking at the Table.
During the period of observation, the following changes have M
noted:- _ use Qf 15 & 17 mHz dropped
- Use of 17 & 19 MHz dropped
- Use of 19 mz dropped
- Use of 6 6 9 MHz dropped
0730 UTC
1200 UTC
1700 UTC
1730 UTC
6 & 9 MHz started.
13 & 15 MHz started.
6 6 9 MHz started.
11 6 13 MHz started.
notes of SYMBOLS USED IN T “^Lino - not currently in use
(SPRING) - Freq used jweLntly - not current^ in use
(HMMMMM, - Ih^^f'Lent change - not previously in use
M “ Message heard
2 - No Message sent
INTERFERENCE
Most of the frequencies used by EZI are affected by some form of
interference, here in the UK, at some time during the schedule. This
can vary from mild background noise to total obliteration of the
station. Since none of the EZI stations appear to be licenced, it
would perhaps be more correct to say that EZI causes, rather than
suffers from the various forms of interference, which are listed
here !
6.840 MHz - During late afternoon used by oriental broadcast station.
9.130 MHz - Used daily at most times by Royal Naval Rtty Station - GYA
11.565 MHz ~ Used by Radio Pakistan (11.570 MHz) at 1700 UTC
13.533 MHz - Severe unidentified carrier - Data or "White Noise"
15.980 MHz - Same as 13.533 MHz
ODDITIES & ERRORS
Some of the Alpha stations have two or more of the Alpha callsigns
sharing their frequencies. EZI, however, appears to have exclusive use
of the frequencies shown. Several exceptions to thi 3 rule have
nonetheless been observed, and are given below. It is believed that
these were errors resulting from incorrect switching of the
transmitters in use, but may possibly have some other purpose.
6.840 MHz - Sat Aug 13 1994 ■ 2045 UTC
CIO 2 sent 3 or 4 times at approximately 1 minute intervals
ALPHA PHONETIC STATIONS
We hope you will find the attached information concerning EZI
of interest, we are pleased to report the following
frequencies, and comments.
2120 CIO 2270 JSR 2515 KPA 2628 FTJ 2743 ULX \ 2953 SYN
3150 PCD 3270 KPA 3417 ART 3640 VLB 3840 YHF
4165 SYN 4230 ??? 4270 PCD 4360 CIO 4463 FTJ 4560 YHF
4665 VLB 4780 KPA 4880 ULX
5060 JSR* 5091 JSR 5170 GBZ 5230 CIO 5339 OEM 5437 ART
5531 BAY 5629 SYN 5715 ZWL 5820 YHF
6270 ULX 6370 MIW 6500 PCD 6745 VLB 6840 EZI 6912 OEM
7323 KPA 7446 KPA 7540 JSR 7605 CIO 7613 GPO 7746 ULX
7918 YHF 7866 SYN
8127 MIW 8465 CIO 8641 MIW
9130 EZI 9402 YHF
10125 CIO 10352 VLB 10648 YHF 10820 VLB 10970 MIW
11565 EZI
19.715 MHz - Sun Aug 14 1994 0940 UTC
CIO 2 sent 4 or 5 times - One singly, then the rest together 1 minute
later
12745 SYN 12950 MIW
13533 EZI 13921 CIO
9.130 MHz - Sat Oct 29 1994 - 2245 UTC
EZI was sending a 100 Grp message starting at 2230 UTC. At 2245 UTC,
CIO 2 was broadcast over the same carrier at. equal audio otrongth for
1 to 2 minutes over the top of this message before going off the air.
The EZI messsage then continued as normal. ( Thin tmmnn certainly to
have been an error) .
14000 PCD 14750 MIW
15980 EZI
17170 CIO 17410 EZI 17966 '?
CONCLUSION
EZI works to a regular schedule operated over a 24 hour period. Two or
more frequencies, from the seven available, are in use for each
transmission, and are selected according to seasonal propogat ton and
the target area for the particular transmission. The wide range of
frequencies in use by this station, and also the selection of
frequencies used for each transmission would seem to indicate that
target areas for the transmissions vary considerably in distance.
This schedule may well be subject to some changes by the time it is
published, but you should be able to use the Table to find EZI
operating on at least one of the given frequencies at any of the times
shown .
Brian Rogers - Crawley
18178 CIO
19715 EZI
* 5060 JSR heard only once
5170 GBZ-J heard only twice
5531 BAY 7613 GPO may now be dead
Please continue to send in reports, the call-sign we have
shown was the latest reported, so it is possible that it may
have changed .
FNTBMA MORSE SUPPLEMENT PART THREE
By Mike Gauffman
We continue our survey of Morse Stations by covering some of
the less conventional numbers transmissions which don't follow
the habits of the ' typical ' stations covered so far. Of all
the confirmed voice numbers stations very few identify
themselves with callsigns (legitimate or otherwise) - the only
one doing so is OLX. Previously, we also had DFC37 & DFD2I and
maybe the mysterious D-D25 , 78 and 79, However, there are
certain morse stations, other than OLX, which use callsigns to
give themselves an aura c * legality. These callsigns are not
necessarily 'genuine' arc may be quite arbitrary. Some of the
stations involved may t be numbers stations after all, but
until we can verify their purpose it is wise to treat them as
such. By far the largest jse-*s of arbitrary callsigns are the
so-called pseudo-: 3 r«erc:al beacons - a vast area in itself
which we will cover in n future* issue.
The remaining suspect stations use call signs DEA47 , BBY , MPL. ,
4XZ, HEP, FDC, - T E , E~ . and the series KKN/ KRH/KW5, ..........
of these, DEA", --I. -DC and the K'KN series are legitimate
callsigns, the -c=: a^e probably all bogus.
16. DEQA7 Or ig
Holstein, this
arbitrary calls
DEA4 -r cn 20 1~
frequency tc 1
ever si~ce. I”
and re
c an s ~ i
oper atirg , tra
DEA47 ' ~ mar * e
i. r ? t e " s p
-a ting at the Krumweg site at Hu.sum, Shleswxg-
station operated for many years . under the
-- , EC3-v . Eventually, it was ' 1 eg i t imi sed ' as
January 1992. It moved from its old 9161 kHz
7E3 * 13*582 in parallel where it has remained
"=:e r : months its operation has become erratic,
Coes it confine itself to 'office hours' , and
now be heard late in the evening. When
scission is continuous, sending its ' VW de
x ast automatic morse occasionally
h short messages.
17. 8 BY- Cal -sip indicates Indonesian origin, which
unlikely. I* _e ct registered with the I.T.U.. It
four parallel f 'equenc ies to the following schedule
7668
10248
12170
*-e.- r ec-uency-r everumgs
IS- 30-09.00
23 Hours (Moved from 12282)
14931
Hours
seems most
operates on
18415 23 Mcj rs
20946 7 . 3 3-13- 30
Transmissions beg_~ sery hour at H+4Q, however , sometimes at
H+10 it briefly ccmorun icates with other stations which also
use various arbitra - , callsigns. Numerous 3F identifiers are
used in the H+40 t^^srissions which conform to a complex
system .
Readers may me interested to note that monitoring conducted In
Singapore produced absolutely no trace of SBY on any frequency
at any time.
1
13. MFL Callsign indicates British origin, but this is
unconfirmed. Operates daily at 13.20 UTC on 10180 kHz only.
Format : e.g. VVV MPL MPL 1/25 (one^message of 25 5F groups)
or WV MPL MPL QRU QRU SK S K ( for about 2 minutes
when no messages are
to f o 1 1 ow ) .
I once heard this station (Saturday 1^_10«94) at 19.30 UTC
sending fast 5F groups and ending BT QRU SK.
19. 4XZ Officially controlled by Israeli Navy, its habits and
form of traffic would seem to indicate that this is a cover
for espionage activity. Operates 24 hours on several
frequencies simultaneously - including : 2680, 2800, 9241.5,
4289, 4331, 6379, 8012, 8050, 8437, 8518, 10046, 12984, 14450,
14555, 14924, 15023, 15050, 17050, 17579, 18518, 18859, 19419,
19985, 20000.5, 20730, 22330.5, 23000.5, 23054.8 kHz.
20. FDC Officially French Air Force at Metz-Frascaty , but as
with 4XZ this may merely be a cover. Frequencies noted :
2246.5, 2700, 3835, 4926, 5748, 6859.5, 7336, 7367, 7638,
7850, 8130, 8095, 10470, 11120, 14467 kHz.
21. HEP Behaves erratically usually sending marker WV de
HEP.
Rumoured to be Interpol, its callsign indicates Switzerland.
Operates between 3 and 9,5 mHz, most recently heard on 5261.
Becoming more elusive.
22. KKN Series These are all officially allocated to the
United States Department, and almost certainly are CIA
operations. KRH50 has operated since the early 1970' s at
least, from Barford St John in England, and uses 5426, 7724,
11142, 13545,13815, 16132, 20568 kHz.
23. VDE The most elusive of all these stations VDE has
operated for many years on numerous frequencies between 4 and
9.5 mHz. Although it seems to show a preference for Sunday
afternoons it has been heard on other days sending its marker
; 'VVV VVV de VDE'. recent frequencies include 5585, 7546,
7562 (VDE-2), 8175, 9241 kHz. Its unallocated callsign would
indicate Canada
but
this is unlikely.
Much more research
is needed
on all
the
stations detailed ir
this feature.
which due to
a lack
of
space we have only
covered briefly
. We
hooe to
feature
these
in Qreater detail ir
the future.
2 -
~ian=kls using morse ^eem to be operdting
Two pseudo -time signals using
present :
, this one operates
24 . A companion for the ' Buzz *% ° ency ; ’sending a 4F group
Just a couple of kHz higier * minute). However, sometimes
indicating the time (adding 1- ' same 4F group may be repeated
its groups are random and t! mode?) its groups bear no
incessantly for hours. time signal it is not at all
relation to the time. Even as a minutes ou t Operates at +2
accurate and is sometimes upto 3 minut.
hours to UTC .
. * pc; on a nufflbsr ot
25. A more interesting time ^ Bna x) include 2316, 2360,
frequencies, often 2 in P a : all ^; 9 .^ 663 5, 6BOO, 7530, 8084
3825 4402, 5053, 5181, 520^, .. I # ve heard 5181 in
and ’possibly 18840 kHz * i^^to be linked with propagation
parallel with 5053 too erate 24 hours per day and has
considerations. * ^ seem ^ anc j Q7.00 on 8084. Transmissions
consist a of fl^'character signal sent one a minute in
fast morse. This takes the form o • ^ 99XXXX7?F? ????
. « h r 2 3 or 4 hours ahead
where XXXX represents the time- ei in morse. F is a
of UTC. ? is ar actua! quest ion ^m^ minute interv als,
!Si " 81 ' " 9 nF'.eS-“ndo» groups sr» soot. First heard on
S°1«4 t4 st"ion has continued eve, since.
Now onto a couple of newcomers :
a r- Hint in early October on
26. The_98^tatioa J J^owed by^wo ^F groups, continually.
4445//5170 sending 98 foilow by following first groups
The first group is often related 1 ° is often lilll but
e.g. 02588 02562 /^“placed by other figures. Also
-11 w%.m. and uses long
27. BIV__i3CW_J^ERSJ,QN_QE^L^IjIi-
sanity we'll finish with it «,’ voice counter-part this
the voice station YT . Li on 4424 kHz, but at 18.10
transmits every Monday , MCW. Then CQ CQ CQ de
UTC. Until 18.15 YT's are This is followed by
BTV BTV BTV QTC Wv/ IS sen follow), after which a message
NW QTC NW QTC <"°"^*^ 7 3?905 twice. Then 512/19 and 19
list is sent e.g. 512/134/2 A>/v » Then 134 ' s message
single 5F groups whole transmission ends AR SK
begins in a similar way, etc
_ H 02 in common with its voice
Group counts never exceed - > unt il 18.55 when YT's begin
version. The carrier remain ta follow. Unlike its voice
sending for the voice menage messagss a t rigid 5 minute
counter-part BTV does / 6 f ™ low one another,
in ter va Is— they immediately tdi
3
b'ORRV * s * , s Bue to a printing error some readers did not receive
the following information on Single Letter High Frequency
Beacons in our Morse Suppliment Part 2, we have included it
again for all reader.
SINGLE LETTER BEACONS (MX)
These appear to fall into 3 distinct families -
1) The F.S.K. markers, now no longer with us, K & U's only
£) The I.C.W. 'cluster beacons' of which only S & C still
remain, but used to included ADGKLNOPVZ .. — and
These cluster beacons' lived together in narrow bands
(originally 4 kHz wide) throughout the H.F. spectrum.
3 ) The I.C.W. solitary beacons which have always operated
singly out of these bands. Some of those like V's & R's take
up long term residence on their channels. Others only appear
for short periods, only to reappear months or even years
1 ater .
These have been logged on numerous frequencies between 3091 &
20970 kHz.
A passible 4th family, although by no means single letter, are
the so-called 'pseudo - commercial ' beacons and pseudo - time
signals, these may well serve a similar purpose.
Despite the lack of material, much information has been
gleaned concerning these mysterious transmissions , which
future articles will cover.
In the meantime he-e ' s a list of family 2 & 3 beacons lagged
in the period May 1993 to July 1994.
CLUSTERS
BEACONS
5305.2
7038.8
8494 . g
10871.9
13635.9
17015.9
20991 .7
BEACON
C
5305.4
7039.0
8495.0
10872.0
13636.0
17016.0
20992,0
B EACON D
Active In early 1994 in these clusters, but no longer operates
All the above transmit simu. 1 taneous 1 y .
4
SOLITARIES (Regular)
BEACON R 3 196/ 77452 24 hours per day
BEACON V 9162//5205 In Summer 24 hours possibly
5205//4570 In Winter 24 hours possibly
- ^ f hp cnac inq between V % v a r x e »
"^un^/^r“‘it.^iic..b.; P ov.r . short poriod. Th.y
also occasionally send VI instead of
( I r regul ar 5
BEACON F 4040 slew
BEAC0N__L 3090-3096 region (va ^^ e [ 0 ^™ C ^ times.
-s- i -r i jl ~7 -r i a 1 T2A? 3416 3806 3938 4080
BEACON P 3192/ 3213 also 3167 .-101 —6*.
4605 6500 5e5S (drifts)
BEACCL •
BEACCN
BEACC*- -
Many tgh
they ca~
of I- f-
publ icat
>V *V 'W 1 '
;i74
5181 3658 10457 10284 16273
9160 is the Cyrillic R (pronounced 'yah')
6938 7039 10612
-Mainly exist but, appear only for short periods,
easily be missed. We have received a good selection
nation from readers about SLB s far ,jtu
w -W'Vr*Vr'V'\»'Vr'Vr'V>
-V nj *V *V n, <
U *\1 'V 'Vr *V *V 'V- -Vi *V 'Vi
, «v n, *\ f *V 'V “V/ 'Vi 'V 'Vi hj *\
5
THE TWO DAY - WONDER
M5) DID YOU HEAR THIS STATION ?- P LEASE LET US KNOW
A new station appeared on Tuesday 5th October 1993 with a
unique 6F format. Operating almost continuously it began on
Tuesday morning and disappeared on Wednesday evening-
coinciding with the Russian Coup taking place in Moscow. It
col ossa 1 signal strength on the 1 ower frequencies woul
indicate a location in Britain. Its general format consisted
of four non-random 6F groups ending with six zeroes and
stroke. This repeating con t inuous 1 y .
Throughout the day the groups would change in random fashion
and occasionally groups of letters were sent. The number groups
contained a large number of double figures. The letter-
groups included even more repeated letters.
It used MCW modulated at 800 Hz on a continuous carrier, and
sent very slowly with an au to-ksyer . (The sending of the 6
zeroes alone took 23 seconds : ) •
It used two parallel frequencies & operated the following
schedule : -
UTC 08. 00“ 14. 00
19.00-00.00
9240/7883
3130/2688
1 5 . 00- 19 . 00 5207 / 4620
01 .00- 08.00 4044/4620
The following log extract will give an idea of its complexity
5th October
(06.30) '520768 996868 960822
(11.00) '665804 82577P 480472
(12.00) ' KKK 570976 644864 804199
Over the next 15 minutes the number of
345570 000000/'
561742 000000/'
314468 000000/'
(12.32) after 000000/ - K FFFJEE II PY QWRRYE WWWPIR
QTP0WP PPPPPP FFFJEE II PY FFFJEE IIP FFFJEE
II' break.
(12.45) ' 33880 6 124463 222 034 105920 000000 XX'
Number of X ' s varies e . g . 1. ,2 , 3 > 3 , 3 ? 0 . . . none by 14. 3b .
(replace stroke).
(13.30 as 12.45 but wideband jamming (+/- 10 kHz) on both
■frequencies. Jamming s topped at 14,00 exact * y .
(15.00)
(17.00)
( 19.00)
( 20 . 00 )
Same mes
' 63824 1
' 308 443
' 358042
sage *a
528081
474288
808995
above
195209
849 777
000982
771 857
48 3553
322292
000000 / un t i 1 1 9 . 00
000000 G ( replaces/ )
000000/ '
Wed 6th October
(06.30) '932141
(07.30) '732131
(08, 15) same as
217649
217649
06 . 30 .
102574
102574
000000 /
000000 /
Unlike the 'Count Control station,
would seem to be significant due t;
On Wednesday groups began to carry
6 >
the order of the 6F groups
the 000000 'end signal .
over .
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